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Xing Y, Si L, Wang Y, Zhang W, Ling X, Yang X. Altered Functional Connectivity of the Multisensory Vestibular Cortex in Patients with Chronic Unilateral Vestibulopathy. Brain Connect 2024. [PMID: 38625114 DOI: 10.1089/brain.2023.0074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/17/2024] Open
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Background: Chronic unilateral vestibulopathy (CUVP) is a common chronic vestibular syndrome; the mechanisms of central vestibular compensation in CUVP are rarely studied. Methods: This study analyzed the data of 18 patients with CUVP and 18 healthy controls (HCs) and used seed-based functional connectivity (FC) and voxel-mirrored homotopic connectivity (VMHC) analyses to explore the FC alterations. Results: Compared with HCs, patients with CUVP showed decreased FC between the left dorsolateral superior frontal gyrus and the right hippocampus; the left middle frontal gyrus and the right posterior cingulate gyrus, the right hippocampus, the right parahippocampal gyrus. There is also a reduction in FC between the left and right insula. There was enhanced FC between the left supplementary motor area (SMA) and the bilateral superior occipital gyrus, the left hippocampus and the left posterior cingulate gyrus, as well as a the left middle temporal gyrus (p = 0.03). Additionally,VMHC was decreased between the bilateral medial superior frontal gyrus, the bilateral precentral gyrus, and the bilateral postcentral gyrus (p = 0.001). The zVMHC values in the bilateral superior frontal gyrus and the precentral gyrus were both negatively corrected with the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) score.well as Conclusions: Altered FC in regions of bilateral multisensory vestibular cortex existed in patients with CUVP. Decreased FC and VMHC in the bilateral multisensory vestibular cortex may affect vestibular information integration, thus affecting self-motion perception, spatial orientation, and postural control.
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- Yue Xing
- Department of Neurology, Peking University Aerospace School of Clinical Medicine (Aerospace Center Hospital), Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Peking University Aerospace School of Clinical Medicine (Aerospace Center Hospital), Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Peking University Aerospace School of Clinical Medicine (Aerospace Center Hospital), Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Peking University Aerospace School of Clinical Medicine (Aerospace Center Hospital), Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Peking University Aerospace School of Clinical Medicine (Aerospace Center Hospital), Beijing, China
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- Department of Neurology, Peking University Aerospace School of Clinical Medicine (Aerospace Center Hospital), Beijing, China
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Lacour M, Lopez C, Thiry A, Tardivet L. Vestibular rehabilitation improves spontaneous nystagmus normalization in patients with acute unilateral vestibulopathy. Front Rehabil Sci 2023; 4:1122301. [PMID: 37325127 PMCID: PMC10264803 DOI: 10.3389/fresc.2023.1122301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2022] [Accepted: 05/10/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Introduction Spontaneous nystagmus (SN) can be observed after acute unilateral vestibulopathy (AUVP). The slow phase eye velocity of the SN progressively decreases in darkness as the result of rebalanced neurophysiological activity between both vestibular nuclei, a process that can take several months. Although this compensatory process can occur spontaneously, there is poor evidence that vestibular rehabilitation (VR) can facilitate the process. Methods We documented the natural time course of SN reduction in patients with AUVP, as well as the effects of VR by means of a unilateral rotation paradigm. In a retrospective study (Study 1: n = 126 AUVP patients), we compared the time course of the SN reduction in patients with VR (n = 33) and without VR (n = 93). In a prospective study (Study 2: n = 42 AUVP patients), we compared the effects of early VR (n = 22; initiated within the first two weeks of symptoms onset) or late VR (n = 20; initiated after the second week of symptoms onset) on the time course of the SN reduction. Results Study 1 showed shorter median time of SN normalization in patients with VR compared to patients without VR (14 days and 90 days, respectively). Study 2 showed that AUVP patients with early and late VR had a similar median time of SN normalization. The SN slow phase eye velocity was significantly decreased as early as the end of the first VR session in both groups, and kept decreasing at each subsequent VR session. In the early VR group, 38% of the patients had slow phase eye velocity below 2°/s after the first VR session, 100% after the fifth session. Similar findings were observed in the late VR group. Discussion Taken together, these results indicate that VR with a unidirectional rotation paradigm speeds up the normalization of SN. This effect seems independent of the time between symptoms onset and commencement of VR, but early intervention is recommended to speed up the SN reduction.
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- Michel Lacour
- Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience (LNC), FR3C, Marseille, France
- Independent Researcher, Fuveau, France
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- Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience (LNC), FR3C, Marseille, France
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Si L, Cui B, Li Z, Li X, Li K, Ling X, Shen B, Yang X. Altered Resting-State Intranetwork and Internetwork Functional Connectivity in Patients With Chronic Unilateral Vestibulopathy. J Magn Reson Imaging 2021; 56:291-300. [PMID: 34921750 PMCID: PMC9299943 DOI: 10.1002/jmri.28031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2021] [Revised: 12/04/2021] [Accepted: 12/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Chronic unilateral vestibulopathy (CUVP) is often accompanied by dizziness and postural instability, which restrict patients' daily activities. It is important to understand central compensation mechanisms underlying these symptoms in patients with CUVP by evaluating their brain functional status. PURPOSE To analyze the changes in resting-state intranetwork and internetwork functional connectivity (FC) and explore the state of central vestibular compensation in patients with CUVP. STUDY TYPE Retrospective. POPULATION Eighteen patients with right-sided CUVP and 18 age- and sex-matched healthy controls. FIELD STRENGTH/SEQUENCE A 3.0 T, three-dimensional magnetization-prepared rapid gradient-echo (MP-RAGE) and resting-state echo-planar imaging (EPI) functional MRI sequences. ASSESSMENT FC alterations were explored using independent component analysis (ICA). Twelve independent components were identified via ICA. Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) score for all patients was determined. STATISTICAL TESTS Two-sample t test, family-wise error (FWE) correction, Pearson correlation coefficient (r). A P value <0.05 was considered statistically significant. RESULTS Compared with healthy controls, patients with CUVP showed significantly decreased FC in the right middle occipital gyrus within the lateral visual network, and significantly increased FC in the right supplementary motor area within the sensorimotor network. The FC was decreased between the medial visual and auditory networks, the right frontoparietal and posterior default networks, as well as the sensorimotor and auditory networks. There was a significant negative correlation between the FC changes in the visual, auditory networks and the DHI score in patients with CUVP (r = -0.583). DATA CONCLUSION Compared to healthy controls, the FC was significantly decreased in the right visual cortex and significantly enhanced in the right sensorimotor network in patients with CUVP. Patients with CUVP showed decreased FC between multiple whole-brain networks, suggesting that abnormal integration of multisensory information may be involved in the occurrence of chronic dizziness and instability in patients with CUVP. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE 4 TECHNICAL EFFICACY: Stage 2.
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- Lihong Si
- Department of Neurology, Aerospace Center Hospital, Peking University Aerospace School of Clinical Medicine, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Radiology, Aerospace Center Hospital, Peking University Aerospace School of Clinical Medicine, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Neurology, Aerospace Center Hospital, Peking University Aerospace School of Clinical Medicine, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Neurology, Aerospace Center Hospital, Peking University Aerospace School of Clinical Medicine, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Neurology, Aerospace Center Hospital, Peking University Aerospace School of Clinical Medicine, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Neurology, Aerospace Center Hospital, Peking University Aerospace School of Clinical Medicine, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Neurology, Aerospace Center Hospital, Peking University Aerospace School of Clinical Medicine, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Neurology, Aerospace Center Hospital, Peking University Aerospace School of Clinical Medicine, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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LAPENNA R, PELLEGRINO A, RICCI G, CAGINI C, FARALLI M. Binocular cyclotorsion in superior vestibular neuritis. Acta Otorhinolaryngol Ital 2018; 38:138-144. [PMID: 29967552 PMCID: PMC6028823 DOI: 10.14639/0392-100x-1645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2017] [Accepted: 06/06/2017] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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SUMMARY Conjugated cyclotorsion of the eyes toward the affected side can commonly be observed in vestibular neuritis. The aim of this study was to assess the differences in cyclotorsion between the ipsi- and contralesional eye during selective involvement of the superior branch of the vestibular nerve. We studied binocular cyclotorsion through ocular fundus photographs in 10 patients affected by acute superior vestibular neuritis (SVN). Cyclotorsion was also studied in 20 normal subjects. All SVN patients showed an ipsilesional cycloversion of the eyes. Normal subjects exhibited a constant mild excyclovergence (6.42 ± 2.34°). In SVN patients, contralateral incyclotorsion (8.4 ± 8.14°) was lower and not normally distributed compared to ipsilateral eye excyclotorsion (17.9 ± 4.36°) with no correlation between them. The interocular difference in cyclodeviation could be related to the starting physiological excyclovergence, to different tonic effects on the extraocular muscles of the two eyes and to the different influence of spontaneous nystagmus on cyclodeviation in the two eyes. We recommend referring only to ipsilateral excyclotorsion in the evaluation of utricular function during SVN and its subsequent compensation. Further studies are required to determine the binocular cyclotorsion in the case of other kinds of selective involvement of the vestibular nerve.
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- R. LAPENNA
- Department of Surgical and Biomedical Sciences, Section of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Surgical and Biomedical Sciences, Section of Ophthalmology, University of Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Surgical and Biomedical Sciences, Section of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Surgical and Biomedical Sciences, Section of Ophthalmology, University of Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Surgical and Biomedical Sciences, Section of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Perugia, Italy
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Otero-Millan J, Treviño C, Winnick A, Zee DS, Carey JP, Kheradmand A. The video ocular counter-roll (vOCR): a clinical test to detect loss of otolith-ocular function. Acta Otolaryngol 2017; 137:593-597. [PMID: 28084887 DOI: 10.1080/00016489.2016.1269364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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CONCLUSION vOCR can detect loss of otolith-ocular function without specifying the side of vestibular loss. Since vOCR is measured with a simple head tilt maneuver, it can be potentially used as a bedside clinical test in combination with video head impulse test. OBJECTIVE Video-oculography (VOG) goggles are being integrated into the bedside assessment of patients with vestibular disorders. Lacking, however, is a method to evaluate otolith function. This study validated a VOG test for loss of otolith function. METHODS VOG was used to measure ocular counter-roll (vOCR) in 12 healthy controls, 14 patients with unilateral vestibular loss (UVL), and six patients with bilateral vestibular loss (BVL) with a static lateral head tilt of 30°. The results were compared with vestibular evoked myogenic potentials (VEMP), a widely-used laboratory test of otolith function. RESULTS The average vOCR for healthy controls (4.6°) was significantly different from UVL (2.7°) and BVL (1.6°) patients (p < 0.0001). The vOCR and VEMP measurements were correlated across subjects, especially the click and tap oVEMPs (click oVEMP R = 0.45, tap oVEMP R = 0.51; p < 0.0003). The receiver operator characteristic (ROC) analysis showed that vOCR and VEMPs detected loss of otolith function equally well. The best threshold for vOCR to detect vestibular loss was at 3°. The vOCR values from the side of vestibular loss and the healthy side were not different in UVL patients (2.53° vs 2.8°; p = 0.59).
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- Department of Otolaryngology, University of Minnesota Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Ophthalmology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Otolaryngology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Neurology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Otolaryngology, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Roberts RE, Da Silva Melo M, Siddiqui AA, Arshad Q, Patel M. Vestibular and oculomotor influences on visual dependency. J Neurophysiol 2016; 116:1480-7. [PMID: 27358321 PMCID: PMC5040385 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00895.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2015] [Accepted: 06/27/2016] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Participants made verticality judgments using the rod-and-disk test, a test of visual dependence, and then repeated after caloric irrigation. If the combination of rotating disk and caloric increased the slow-phase velocity of the torsional nystagmus the tilt in subjective verticality increased, whereas reductions in eye velocity were associated with reduced tilt. Thus visual dependency measures are not only modulated by perceptual style but can also reflect local vestibulo-ocular function, specifically torsional eye movements. The degree to which a person relies on visual stimuli for spatial orientation is termed visual dependency (VD). VD is considered a perceptual trait or cognitive style influenced by psychological factors and mediated by central reweighting of the sensory inputs involved in spatial orientation. VD is often measured with the rod-and-disk test, in which participants align a central rod to the subjective visual vertical (SVV) in the presence of a background that is either stationary or rotating around the line of sight—dynamic SVV. Although this task has been employed to assess VD in health and vestibular disease, what effect torsional nystagmic eye movements may have on individual performance is unknown. Using caloric ear irrigation, 3D video-oculography, and the rod-and-disk test, we show that caloric torsional nystagmus modulates measures of VD and demonstrate that increases in tilt after irrigation are positively correlated with changes in ocular torsional eye movements. When the direction of the slow phase of the torsional eye movement induced by the caloric is congruent with that induced by the rotating visual stimulus, there is a significant increase in tilt. When these two torsional components are in opposition, there is a decrease. These findings show that measures of VD can be influenced by oculomotor responses induced by caloric stimulation. The findings are of significance for clinical studies, as they indicate that VD, which often increases in vestibular disorders, is modulated not only by changes in cognitive style but also by eye movements, in particular nystagmus.
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- R Edward Roberts
- Neuro-otology Unit, Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom;
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- Neuro-otology Unit, Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Neuro-otology Unit, Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Neuro-otology Unit, Division of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; School of Biosciences, University of East London, London, United Kingdom
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OBJECTIVES Four studies assessing vestibular compensation in Menière's disease patients undergoing unilateral vestibular neurotomy, using different analysis methods, are reviewed, with a focus on the different strategies used by patients according to their preoperative sensory preference. MATERIAL AND METHODS Four prospective studies performed in a university tertiary referral center were reviewed, measuring the pattern of vestibular compensation in Menière's disease patients before and after unilateral vestibular neurotomy on various assessment protocols: postural syndrome assessed on static posturography and gait analysis; perceptual syndrome assessed on subjective visual vertical perception; and oculomotor syndrome assessed on ocular cyclotorsion. RESULTS Vestibular compensation occurred at variable intervals depending on the parameter investigated. Open-eye postural control and gait/walking returned to normal one month after neurotomy. Fine balance analysis found that visual perception of the vertical and ocular cyclotorsion impairment persisted at long-term follow-up. Clinical postural disturbance persisted only when visual afferents were cut off (eyes closed). These impairments were the expression of a postoperative change in postural strategy related to the new use of visual and non-visual references. CONCLUSIONS Understanding pre-operative interindividual variation in balance strategy is critical to screening for postural instability and tailoring vestibular rehabilitation.
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- A Devèze
- Service d'oto-rhino-laryngologie et d'otoneurologie, hôpital Nord, CHU, Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, chemin des Bourrelly, 13915 Marseille cedex 20, France; Aix Marseille University. Laboratoire de Biomécanique Appliquée, IFSTTAR UMR T24, Boulevard Pierre Dramard, 13015 Marseille, France.
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- Service d'oto-rhino-laryngologie et d'otoneurologie, hôpital Nord, CHU, Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, chemin des Bourrelly, 13915 Marseille cedex 20, France; Aix Marseille University. Laboratoire de Biomécanique Appliquée, IFSTTAR UMR T24, Boulevard Pierre Dramard, 13015 Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille University, Laboratoire de neurobiologie intégrative et adaptative, CNRS UMR 6149, 3, place Victor-Hugo, 13331 Marseille cedex 03, France
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- Aix Marseille University, Laboratoire de neurobiologie intégrative et adaptative, CNRS UMR 6149, 3, place Victor-Hugo, 13331 Marseille cedex 03, France
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- Service d'oto-rhino-laryngologie et d'otoneurologie, hôpital Nord, CHU, Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Marseille, chemin des Bourrelly, 13915 Marseille cedex 20, France; Aix Marseille University, Laboratoire de neurobiologie intégrative et adaptative, CNRS UMR 6149, 3, place Victor-Hugo, 13331 Marseille cedex 03, France
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- Aix Marseille University, Laboratoire de neurobiologie intégrative et adaptative, CNRS UMR 6149, 3, place Victor-Hugo, 13331 Marseille cedex 03, France
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Kaliuzhna M, Vibert D, Grivaz P, Blanke O. Out-of-Body Experiences and Other Complex Dissociation Experiences in a Patient with Unilateral Peripheral Vestibular Damage and Deficient Multisensory Integration. Multisens Res 2015; 28:613-35. [DOI: 10.1163/22134808-00002506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Out-of-body experiences (OBEs) are illusory perceptions of one’s body from an elevated disembodied perspective. Recent theories postulate a double disintegration process in the personal (visual, proprioceptive and tactile disintegration) and extrapersonal (visual and vestibular disintegration) space as the basis of OBEs. Here we describe a case which corroborates and extends this hypothesis. The patient suffered from peripheral vestibular damage and presented with OBEs and lucid dreams. Analysis of the patient’s behaviour revealed a failure of visuo-vestibular integration and abnormal sensitivity to visuo-tactile conflicts that have previously been shown to experimentally induce out-of-body illusions (in healthy subjects). In light of these experimental findings and the patient’s symptomatology we extend an earlier model of the role of vestibular signals in OBEs. Our results advocate the involvement of subcortical bodily mechanisms in the occurrence of OBEs.
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- Mariia Kaliuzhna
- Center for Neuroprosthetics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain Mind Institute, School of Life Science, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital (Inselspital) of Bern, Switzerland
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- Center for Neuroprosthetics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain Mind Institute, School of Life Science, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Center for Neuroprosthetics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain Mind Institute, School of Life Science, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Department of Neurology, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
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Borel L, Redon-Zouiteni C, Cauvin P, Dumitrescu M, Devèze A, Magnan J, Péruch P. Unilateral vestibular loss impairs external space representation. PLoS One 2014; 9:e88576. [PMID: 24523916 PMCID: PMC3921214 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088576] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2013] [Accepted: 01/08/2014] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The vestibular system is responsible for a wide range of postural and oculomotor functions and maintains an internal, updated representation of the position and movement of the head in space. In this study, we assessed whether unilateral vestibular loss affects external space representation. Patients with Menière's disease and healthy participants were instructed to point to memorized targets in near (peripersonal) and far (extrapersonal) spaces in the absence or presence of a visual background. These individuals were also required to estimate their body pointing direction. Menière's disease patients were tested before unilateral vestibular neurotomy and during the recovery period (one week and one month after the operation), and healthy participants were tested at similar times. Unilateral vestibular loss impaired the representation of both the external space and the body pointing direction: in the dark, the configuration of perceived targets was shifted toward the lesioned side and compressed toward the contralesioned hemifield, with higher pointing error in the near space. Performance varied according to the time elapsed after neurotomy: deficits were stronger during the early stages, while gradual compensation occurred subsequently. These findings provide the first demonstration of the critical role of vestibular signals in the representation of external space and of body pointing direction in the early stages after unilateral vestibular loss.
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- Liliane Borel
- Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France
- CNRS, UMR 7260 Laboratoire de Neurosciences Intégratives et Adaptatives, Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France
- CNRS, UMR 7260 Laboratoire de Neurosciences Intégratives et Adaptatives, Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France
- Service d'Oto-Rhino-Laryngologie et Chirurgie Cervico-Faciale, Hôpital Nord, Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France
- CNRS, UMR 7260 Laboratoire de Neurosciences Intégratives et Adaptatives, Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France
- INSERM, UMR_S 1106 Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, Marseille, France
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Deveze A, Bernard-Demanze L, Xavier F, Lavieille JP, Elziere M. Vestibular compensation and vestibular rehabilitation. Current concepts and new trends. Neurophysiol Clin 2014; 44:49-57. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neucli.2013.10.138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2013] [Revised: 10/18/2013] [Accepted: 10/18/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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Lopez C, Schreyer HM, Preuss N, Mast FW. Vestibular stimulation modifies the body schema. Neuropsychologia 2012; 50:1830-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.04.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2011] [Revised: 03/21/2012] [Accepted: 04/10/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Unilateral damage to the labyrinth and the vestibular nerve cause rotational vertigo, postural imbalance, oculomotor disorders and spatial disorientation. Electrophysiological investigations in animals revealed that such deficits are partly due to imbalanced spontaneous activity and sensitivity to motion in neurons located in the ipsilesional and contralesional vestibular nuclei. Neurophysiological reorganizations taking place in the vestibular nuclei are the basis of the decline of the symptoms over time, a phenomenon known as vestibular compensation. Vestibular compensation is facilitated by motor activity and sensory experience, and current rehabilitation programs favor physical activity during the acute stage of a unilateral vestibular loss. Unfortunately, vestibular-defective patients tend to develop strategies in order to avoid movements causing imbalance and nausea (in particular body movements towards the lesioned side), which impedes vestibular compensation. Neuroanatomical evidence suggests a cortical control of postural and oculomotor reflexes based on corticofugal projections to the vestibular nuclei and, therefore, the possibility to manipulate vestibular functions through top-down mechanisms. Based on evidence from neuroimaging studies showing that imagined whole-body movements can activate part of the vestibular cortex, we propose that mental imagery of whole-body rotations to the lesioned and to the healthy side will help rebalancing the activity in the ipsilesional and contralesional vestibular nuclei. Whether imagined whole-body rotations can improve vestibular compensation could be tested in a randomized controlled study in such patients beneficiating, or not, from a mental imagery training. If validated, this hypothesis will help developing a method contributing to reduce postural instability and falls in vestibular-defective patients. Imagined whole-body rotations thus could provide a simple, safe, home-based and self-administered therapeutic method with the potential to overcome the inconvenience related to physical movements.
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- Christophe Lopez
- Department of Psychology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
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Redon C, Lopez C, Bernard-Demanze L, Dumitrescu M, Magnan J, Lacour M, Borel L. Betahistine treatment improves the recovery of static symptoms in patients with unilateral vestibular loss. J Clin Pharmacol 2010; 51:538-48. [PMID: 20940335 DOI: 10.1177/0091270010369241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Vestibular loss induces a combination of postural, oculomotor, and perceptive symptoms that are compensated over time. The aim of this study was to analyze the influence of betahistine dihydrochloride on vestibular compensation. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study was performed in Menière's disease patients who underwent a curative unilateral vestibular neurotomy (UVN). The effects of betahistine treatment were investigated on a broad spectrum of vestibular-induced changes resulting from vestibular loss: body sway, head orientation, ocular cyclotorsion, spontaneous nystagmus, verticality perception, and self-evaluation of the postural stability. The time course of the recovery was compared in 16 patients who received either a placebo or betahistine (24 mg b.i.d.) from 3 days up to 3 months after UVN. Patients were examined before (day -1) and after UVN (days 7, 30, and 90). Results indicate that betahistine reduces the time to recovery by 1 month or more depending on the tested functions. Betahistine was effective as soon as 4 days after treatment administration, and the effect remained during the whole compensation period (up to 3 months). The observed clinical effects may be attributed to an action of betahistine in rebalancing the neuronal activity between contralateral vestibular nuclei.
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- Christine Redon
- Laboratoire de Neurobiologie Intégrative et Adaptative, CNRS–Université de Provence, Marseille, France
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Sheliga BM, Fitzgibbon EJ, Miles FA. The initial torsional Ocular Following Response (tOFR) in humans: a response to the total motion energy in the stimulus? J Vis 2009; 9:2.1-38. [PMID: 20053093 DOI: 10.1167/9.12.2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2009] [Accepted: 10/02/2009] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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We recorded the initial torsional Ocular Following Responses (tOFRs) elicited at short latency by visual images that occupied the frontal plane and rotated about the lines of sight. Using 1-D radial gratings, the local spatio-temporal characteristics of these tOFRs closely resembled those we previously reported for the hOFRs to horizontal motion with 1-D vertical gratings. When the 1-D radial grating was subdivided into a number of concentric annuli, each with the same radial thickness, tOFRs were less than predicted from the sum of the responses to the individual annuli: spatial normalization. However, the normalization was much weaker than that which we previously reported for the hOFRs. Further, when the number, thickness and contrast of these concentric annuli were varied systematically, the latency and magnitude of the tOFRs were well described by single monotonic functions when plotted against the product of the total area of the annuli and the square of their Michelson contrast ("A*C(2)"), consistent with the hypothesis that the onset and magnitude of the initial tOFR are determined by the total motion energy in the stimulus. When our previously published hOFR data were plotted against A*C(2), a single monotonic function sufficed to describe the latency but not the magnitude.
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- B M Sheliga
- Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA.
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Borel L, Lopez C, Péruch P, Lacour M. Vestibular syndrome: a change in internal spatial representation. Neurophysiol Clin 2008; 38:375-89. [PMID: 19026958 DOI: 10.1016/j.neucli.2008.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2008] [Accepted: 09/09/2008] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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The vestibular system contributes to a wide range of functions from reflexes to spatial representation. This paper reviews behavioral, perceptive, and cognitive data that highlight the role of changes in internal spatial representation on the vestibular syndrome. Firstly, we review how visual vertical perception and postural orientation depend on multiple reference frames and multisensory integration and how reference frames are selected according to the status of the peripheral vestibular system (i.e., unilateral or bilateral hyporeflexia), the environmental constraints (i.e., sensory cues), and the postural constraints (i.e., balance control). We show how changes in reference frames are able to modify vestibular lesion-induced postural and locomotor deficits and propose that fast changes in reference frame may be considered as fast-adaptive processes after vestibular loss. Secondly, we review data dealing with the influence of vestibular loss on higher levels of internal representation sustaining spatial orientation and navigation. Particular emphasis is placed on spatial performance according to task complexity (i.e., the required level of spatial knowledge) and to the sensory cues available to define the position and orientation within the environment (i.e., real navigation in darkness or visual virtual navigation without any actual self-motion). We suggest that vestibular signals are necessary for other sensory cues to be properly integrated and that vestibular cues are involved in extrapersonal space representation. In this respect, vestibular-induced changes would be based on a dynamic mental representation of space that is continuously updated and that supports fast-adaptive processes.
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- L Borel
- Laboratoire de neurobiologie intégrative et adaptative, UMR 6149 CNRS, pôle 3C, case B, centre Saint-Charles, université de Provence, 3, place Victor-Hugo, 13331 Marseille cedex 03, France.
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This review summarizes our current knowledge of multisensory vestibular structures and their functions in humans. Most of it derives from brain activation studies with PET and fMRI conducted over the last decade. The patterns of activations and deactivations during caloric and galvanic vestibular stimulations in healthy subjects have been compared with those in patients with acute and chronic peripheral and central vestibular disorders. Major findings are the following: (1) In patients with vestibular neuritis the central vestibular system exhibits a spontaneous visual-vestibular activation-deactivation pattern similar to that described in healthy volunteers during unilateral vestibular stimulation. In the acute stage of the disease regional cerebral glucose metabolism (rCGM) increases in the multisensory vestibular cortical and subcortical areas, but simultaneously it significantly decreases in the visual and somatosensory cortex areas. (2) In patients with bilateral vestibular failure the activation-deactivation pattern during vestibular caloric stimulation shows a decrease of activations and deactivations. (3) Patients with lesions of the vestibular nuclei due to Wallenberg's syndrome show no activation or significantly reduced activation in the contralateral hemisphere during caloric irrigation of the ear ipsilateral to the lesioned side, but the activation pattern in the ipsilateral hemisphere appears 'normal'. These findings indicate that there are bilateral ascending vestibular pathways from the vestibular nuclei to the vestibular cortex areas, and the contralateral tract crossing them is predominantly affected. (4) Patients with posterolateral thalamic infarctions exhibit significantly reduced activation of the multisensory vestibular cortex in the ipsilateral hemisphere, if the ear ipsilateral to the thalamic lesion is stimulated. Activation of similar areas in the contralateral hemisphere is also diminished but to a lesser extent. These data demonstrate the functional importance of the posterolateral thalamus as a vestibular gatekeeper. (5) In patients with vestibulocerebellar lesions due to a bilateral floccular deficiency, which causes downbeat nystagmus (DBN), PET scans reveal that rCGM is reduced in the region of the cerebellar tonsil and flocculus/paraflocculus bilaterally. Treatment with 4-aminopyridine lessens this hypometabolism and significantly improves DBN. These findings support the hypothesis that the (para-) flocculus and tonsil play a crucial role in DBN. Although we can now for the first time attribute particular activations and deactivations to functional deficits in distinct vestibular disorders, the complex puzzle of the various multisensory and sensorimotor functions of the phylogenetically ancient vestibular system is only slowly being unraveled.
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- Marianne Dieterich
- Department of Neurology, Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
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The phenomenon of spatial neglect after right brain damage greatly helps our understanding of the normal mechanisms of directing and maintaining spatial attention, of spatial orientation, and the characteristics of neural representation of space. The intriguing symptom is a spontaneous orientation bias towards the right leading to neglect of objects or persons on the left. Interestingly, we observe similar symptoms namely a spontaneous bias of eyes and head along the horizontal dimension of space in patients with unilateral vestibular dysfunction. Further similarities concern anatomical findings. Both spatial neglect and vestibular processing at cortical level show dominance in the right hemisphere and involve common brain areas. Lesion studies in human and monkey, electrical and transcranial magnetic stimulation, as well as functional imaging results have revealed the superior temporal cortex, insula and the temporo-parietal junction to be substantial parts of the multisensory (vestibular) system as well as to be affected in spatial neglect. We argue that these structures are not strictly 'vestibular' but rather have a multimodal character representing a significant site for the neural transformation of converging vestibular, auditory, neck proprioceptive and visual input into higher order spatial representations. Neurons of these regions provide us with redundant information about the position and motion of our body in space. They seem to play an essential role in adjusting body position relative to external space. This view may initiate further development of those strategies to treat spatial neglect that use routes to rehabilitation based on specific manipulations of sensory input feeding into this system.
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- Hans-Otto Karnath
- Section Neuropsychology, Department of Cognitive Neurology, Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.
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Tighilet B, Trottier S, Lacour M. Dose- and duration-dependent effects of betahistine dihydrochloride treatment on histamine turnover in the cat. Eur J Pharmacol 2005; 523:54-63. [PMID: 16226741 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2005.09.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2005] [Accepted: 09/08/2005] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Drugs interacting with the histaminergic system are currently used for vertigo treatment and it was shown in animal models that structural analogues of histamine like betahistine improved the recovery process after vestibular lesion. This study was aimed at determining the possible dose and duration effects of betahistine treatment on histamine turnover in normal adult cats, as judged by the level of messenger RNA for histidine decarboxylase (enzyme synthesizing histamine) in the tuberomammillary nuclei. Experiments were conducted on betahistine-treated cats receiving daily doses of 2, 5, 10, or 50 mg/kg during 1 week, 3 weeks, 2 months, or 3 months. The 1-week, 3-week, and 2- and 3-month treatments correspond to the acute, compensatory, and sustained compensatory stages of vestibular compensation, respectively. The lowest dose (2 mg/kg) given the longest time (3 months) was close to the dosage for vestibular defective patients. Data from the experimental groups were compared to control, untreated cats and to placebo-treated animals. The results clearly show that betahistine dihydrochloride administered orally in the normal cat interferes with histamine turnover by increasing the basal expression level of histidine decarboxylase mRNA of neurons located in the tuberomammillary nuclei of the posterior hypothalamus. The effects were both dose- and time-dependent. In conclusion, compensation of both static and dynamic deficits is subtended by long-term adaptive mechanisms that could be facilitated pharmacologically using betahistine dihydrochloride.
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- Brahim Tighilet
- UMR 6149 Université de Provence/CNRS Neurobiologie Intégrative et Adaptative, Pôle 3C Comportement, Cerveau, Cognition, Centre de St Charles, Case B, 3 Place Victor Hugo, 13331 Marseille Cedex 3, France.
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